Public Health Ontario has reported 338 new cases of COVID-19 today, which is an increase of 1.2 per cent in the total number of confirmed cases in the province to-date.
The province has also reported 19 deaths attributed to COVID-19 since yesterday’s update. The latest victims of the coronavirus include five people between the ages of 60 and 79 and 14 people over the age of 80.
Public Health Ontario has reported 2,312 deaths attributed to the coronavirus to date, which is eight per cent of the total number of confirmed cases in the province.
According to today’s epidemiological report, there are 327 more recoveries, bringing the total number of resolved cases to 22,811, which is 78.5 per cent of the confirmed cases to-date.
Public Health Ontario reports a case as “resolved” when 14 days have passed since the first date of symptom onset, and the patient is not currently hospitalized.
There are 791 people hospitalized in the province with COVID-19, including 127 patients in intensive care units and 92 patients on ventilators.
Since last report, 17,537 tests have been processed, bringing the province’s test total to 765,501.
Public Health Ontario reports there have been 29,047 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Ontario since the pandemic began.
The public health agency reports 5,172 of those cases have been long-term care residents and 1,472 of those residents have died.
The Ministry of Long-Term care, however, reports a higher number of resident deaths. Based on information provided by long-term care homes, the ministry report states 1,661 long-term care residents have died with COVID-19, and there are now 986 active cases of COVID-19 in residents and 866 active cases of COVID-19 in staff. The ministry reports seven long-term care staff have died.
Yesterday the provincial government extended its emergency orders to June 30.
Current emergency orders include allowing frontline care providers to redeploy staff where they are needed most, enabling public health units to redeploy or hire staff to support case management and contact tracing, limiting long-term care and retirement home staff to working at one home, and preventing unfair pricing of necessary goods.
In Northern Ontario, the Thunder Bay District Health Unit has the highest number of confirmed cases, while the Porcupine Health Unit, which covers Timmins and the surrounding area, still has the highest rate of confirmed cases.
Today's provincial report includes data from Jan. 15 to June 2 and includes the rate of confirmed cases per 100,000 population. Data included on resolved cases and last known confirmed is from the each health unit's respective website. The breakdown for Northern Ontario health units is:
• Algoma Public Health - 21 cases, rate of 18.4 per 100,000 population. The last positive test was confirmed May 23. All of the known cases are resolved.
• North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit - 25 cases, rate of 19.3 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 27 cases, the last of which was reported May 18. Of those, 26 are resolved and there has been one virus-related death.
• Porcupine Health Unit - 65, rate of 77.9 per 100,000 population. The last confirmed case was May 10. Of the confirmed cases, 57 are resolved and seven people have died. There is still one known active case of the virus.
• Public Health Sudbury and Districts - 64 cases, rate of 32.2 per 100,000 population. The last positive test was reported May 14. Two people have died, and the rest of the known cases are resolved.
• Timiskaming Health Unit - 18 cases, rate of 55.1 per 100,000. The last positive tests were done April 28. All of the cases are resolved.
• Thunder Bay District Health Unit - 82 cases, rate of 54.7 per 100,000 population. Of the confirmed cases, 79 are resolved and one person has died. There are two known active cases, both of which are hospitalized.
• Northwestern Health Unit - 22 cases, rate of 25.1 per 100,000 population. The health unit has reported 21 cases, with 20 of them being resolved.
The Ontario rate of infection per 100,000 population is 195.4.